Southern Africa
Diamond-cutting fever
Business opportunities are blooming in diamond cutting and polishing in southern Africa following the DTC’s relocalisation from London to Botswana, [...]
Business opportunities are blooming in diamond cutting and polishing in southern Africa following the DTC’s relocalisation from London to Botswana, [...]
BHP Billiton is to carry out a feasibility study for a kimberlite prospection campaign in the Wambaterritory of the Upper [...]
Fresh from a deal in iron, Minmetals is moving into chrome. A subsidiary of the Chinese company, Minmetals Development Co, [...]
Has the threat of a takeover disappeared for Katanga Mining, the company headed by George Forrest and Art Ditto that [...]
The gold industry in Burkina Faso is bubbling. The first industrial gold mine in the country, Youga, is due to [...]
Sofreco, the French management consultancy charged with bringing technical assistance to the stabilising of Gecamines’ industrial activities, is making a [...]
Nord Est, one of few French companies which was still active in African mining, has just sold its lead and [...]
A Chinese joint venture, Henan International Mining Co, is currently negotiating the granting of several bauxite permits in the west [...]